Andy Naselli

Thoughts on Theology

T4G 2008 MP3s

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All of the MP3s for the general sessions and panel discussions are now available for free downloads. Brief bios of the speakers are available here.

I’d recommend listening to these in order:

  1. Ligon Duncan: Sound Doctrine: Essential to Faithful Pastoral Ministry
  2. Panel Discussion 1: Dever, Duncan, Mahaney, Mohler
  3. Thabiti Anyabwile: Bearing the Image: Identity, the Work of Christ, and the Church
  4. Panel Discussion 2: Anyabwile, Dever, Duncan, Mahaney, Mohler
  5. John MacArthur: The Sinner Neither Able Nor Willing: The Doctrine of Absolute Inability
  6. Mark Dever: Improving the Gospel: Exercises in Unbiblical Theology
  7. Panel Discussion 3: Dever, Duncan, MacArthur, Mahaney, Mohler
  8. R.C. Sproul: The Curse Motif of the Atonement
  9. Panel Discussion 4: Dever, Duncan, Mahaney, Mohler, Sproul
  10. Albert Mohler: Why Do They Hate It So? The Doctrine of Substitution
  11. Panel Discussion 5: Dever, Duncan, Mahaney, Mohler
  12. John Piper: How the Supremacy of Christ Creates Radical Christian Sacrifice
  13. Panel Discussion 6: Dever, Duncan, Mahaney, Mohler, Piper
  14. C.J. Mahaney: Sustaining a Pastor’s Soul

Related:

D. A. Carson’s Christ and Culture Revisited

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christ-and-culture-revisited.jpgD. A. Carson’s Christ and Culture Revisited (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008) is now available.

I heartily recommend this volume.

  • Carson skillfully applies his biblical theological framework—interpreting the whole Bible with a robust salvation-historical grid—to the issue of “Christ and Culture” that H. Richard Niebuhr raised in 1951.
  • It is a model work for combining biblical, historical, systematic, and practical theology for the benefit of the church.
  • Though Carson normally publishes in the fields of NT exegesis and theology, this book is impressively up-to-date with the relevant literature and arguments.

I had the privilege of meticulously reading this volume straight through at least three times at various stages last year. It’s the type of book that rewards slow, thoughtful, even repeated reading.

D. A. Carson on Evangelicalism (and Fundamentalism)

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The following two (lengthy) MP3s by D. A. Carson are penetrating:

This afternoon I listened to the more recent one (“What is Evangelicalism?”), and I was encouraged by Carson’s 4.5-minute analysis of the current state of fundamentalism. It is not particularly constructive when evangelicals and fundamentalists broad-brush and launch grenades at each other. Contrast Carson’s conciliatory attitude here: listen from 42:10 to 46:30.

Update: A transcript of the 4.5-minute analysis is available here.

Kevin Bauder: “Fundamentalism and Scholarship”

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Kevin BauderBauder has finished another thoughtful series of short essays: “Fundamentalism and Scholarship.”

I’ve combined all 12 short essays into one PDF.

  1. Not Me (January 4, 2008)
  2. What Is a Scholar? (January 11, 2008)
  3. Hazards of Scholarship (January 18, 2008)
  4. Does Fundamentalism Need Scholars? (January 25, 2008)
  5. Does Fundamentalism Have Scholars? (February 1, 2008)
  6. How Do We Get Scholars? (February 8, 2008)
  7. To Make a Scholar (February 15, 2008)
  8. The Scholarly Life (February 22, 2008)
  9. Models of Scholarship (February 29, 2008)
  10. Scholarship and Separatism (March 14, 2008)
  11. The Dual Responsibility of a Christian Scholar (March 21, 2008)
  12. The Christian Scholar’s Christian Responsibility (March 28, 2008)

Note: Central Seminary emails these essays every Friday afternoon. You can access the archives here.

Craig Blomberg: “Jesus of Nazareth: How Historians Can Know Him and Why It Matters”

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The second essay in Christ on Campus Initiative’s series was released this morning: Craig Blomberg‘s “Jesus of Nazareth: How Historians Can Know Him and Why It Matters.” The CCI essays are (1) by evangelical scholars, (2) geared for campus evangelism, and (3) edited by D. A. Carson. Readers and organizations may circulate these essays without charge.

The Christ on Campus Initiative (CCI) is a ministry created for the purpose of preparing and circulating literature for college and university students, addressing an array of important intellectual and practical issues from an evangelical Christian perspective. This initiative is made possible by generous support from the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL) and the MAC foundation (Fort Collins, CO). The editorial team, led by D.A. Carson, commissions top evangelical scholars to oversee the creation and distribution of a variety of resources for university students. The goal of these resources is that they be intellectually rigorous, culturally relevant, persuasive in argument, and faithful to historic, evangelical Christianity.

Blomberg

Here’s an outline of Blomberg’s 29-page article:

[Read more…] about Craig Blomberg: “Jesus of Nazareth: How Historians Can Know Him and Why It Matters”

Keswick Theology

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Last week I was honored to give the 2008 William R. Rice Lecture Series at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary on “Keswick Theology: A Survey and Analysis of the Doctrine of Sanctification in the Early Keswick Movement.” (Update: It’s available as a PDF.)

Keswick

The manuscript for this lecture series is scheduled for publication in the fall 2008 Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal. It distills my first dissertation (“Keswick Theology: A Historical and Theological Survey and Analysis of the Doctrine of Sanctification in the Early Keswick Movement, 1875–1920,” Ph.D. dissertation, Bob Jones University, 2006; xxiv + 387 pp.) from about 100,000 to 20,000 words.

Detroit Seminary is hosting the following resources from the lecture series:

  1. Handout (five-page PDF)
  2. Power Point presentation as a PDF (eighty slides with lots of pictures) [12.1 MB]
  3. MP3s:

Keswick 2

(photos by Dr. Robert V. McCabe)

Update (June 2, 2010): This analysis of Keswick theology is updated and now available as a book.

Update on 8/23/2017: My latest book attempts to survey and analyze “let go and let God” theology more accessibly:

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